It's arguably the best day of the year for NFL fans - two championship games in seven hours - but given the way this season's gone, it's likely to be spoiled, at least in part, by someone wearing a striped shirt.

Parker retiring after long career: It wasn't planned this way, but the opening of a 140-foot-long fishing pier last weekend on the west side of Loveland Reservoir's tiny fishing cove served as a going-away present to fishermen from Steve Parker.

Time set for SDSU football opener: San Diego State's season-opening football game against UCLA at the Rose Bowl will begin at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 5 and be televised on Fox Sports West, according to an...